Father’s day is on Sunday. If you gave littles ones at home and are looking for an easy craft to do why not try making
a trophy celebrating your #1 Dad!
I found these sturdy cups at the dollar store.
Then have the kids paint them with acrylic paints.
Once dry have the kids decorate them with stickers to personalize.
So cute!
Happy Father’s Day!
With the warmer weather finally here, I find myself cooking on the Barbecue and eating outdoors more often. Hamburgers, grilled chicken, ribs, steak, kebabs, the possibilities are endless and oh so tasty!!
I love to grill my vegetables. I especially love them the next day cold in a wrap with feta, so good! But this time of year, farmers markets are open and local vegetables taste so good raw that it would be a shame to cook them.
Luckily, My kids like snacking on raw vegetables especially with ranch dressing. Those of you who know me know that I like to change it up often, so to keep my kids on their toes I change their dipping sauce.
A few years back I came across a recipe for a dip that I tried and loved! I’ve taken it to many potlucks and served it at my place many times and everyone loves it! They always ask for the recipe.
Give it a try, you won’t regret it.
Veggie Dip
2/3 cups plain Greek yogurt
2/3 cups mayonnaise
2 tbsp each shredded carrot, minced green onion, parsley
2 tsp ketchup
1 clove garlic minced
Salt and pepper (to taste)Mix together all the ingredients in a small bowl and adjust seasonings. Chill before serving.
Serve with fresh vegetables.
Buen provecho!
Next weekend is Mother’s Day. A day to take let your mom rest and shower her with love. Are you looking for a dessert ideas? I recently made these cupcakes and I think it would work great for this celebration.
My bouquet has roses, mums, and this super cute marshmallow flower. It’s easy to make and it looks great.
Once your baked and frosted your cupcakes with icing, here’s what you need:
Cut each mini marshmallow in half on a diagonal. you will end up with 2 petals from each marshmallow.
Place the petals into a bag of decorative sugars, and give it a little shake. The sugars will only stick to the part of the marshmallow that was cut!
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Carefully place your marshmallow petals onto your cupcakes. They look great with little candies in the center, like M&Ms or pipe the center in with icing
To make the stems you can either use green licorice sticks or for a more authentic look, use real stems tied with a bow like I did. I went to a florist and asked for stems they were throwing out. They were happy to give them to me.
Happy Mother’s Day!
Those of you that know my family, know just how much my kids love Star Wars. They play Star Wars on the Wii, they have lightsaber duels, we’ve been to Star Wars Identities, Legoland in Toronto and have celebrated MANY Star Wars themed birthday parties. We have so many Star Wars Lego that there is really nowhere to keep it all and it’s slowly taking over all my shelves in the basement. We have the X-Wing, Y-Wing, and the Tie Fighter, The Battle of Endor scene, the Millenium Falcon, Minifigures galore, and so many more that I would need to go on listing them for a really long time.
Every Halloween for the past 6 years they dress up as Luke Skywalker, Anadin, Darth Maul and/or Darth Vader. I even dressed up as Princess Leah one year!
We’ve seen all 6 movies so many times I could probably recite the scenes and now we are secretly counting down the days until the premiere of the next movie. (December 2015 in case you were wondering)
If any of this sounds like your home then you will probably be celebrating tomorrow as we will. I received an email from DK Canada recently that had this activity book for the kids to do. I thought I would share it with you.
Here’s the link:
http://cn.dk.com/static/cs/cn/11/nf/features/starwarsboutique/DK2-star-wars-may-the-4th-2014.pdf
You’ll have to copy and paste the link into your browser. Have fun and
May the 4th Be With You
We love greek salad. Especially with made cherry tomatoes instead of regular ones. I do find it a little tedious though to cut all those tomatoes, one by one. Don’t you?
My brother sent me this link last week. Watch it. You’ll thank me. Genius I say!
